Angelico Chavez

Angelico Chavez (10 April 1910-18 March 1996) was a Mexican-American Catholic friar and historian.

Biography
Angelico Chavez was born in Wagon Mound, New Mexico in 1910, and his family moved to San Diego, California in 1912 before returning to New Mexico. Chavez entered a seminary near Cincinnati at the age of 14, and he was ordained in 1937. He served as a missionary to the Pueblo of the Jemez Mountains and elsewhere, and he later served as a US Army chaplain during World War II, taking part in the invasions of Guam and Leyte. After the war, he became archivists for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, translating its Spanish archives into English. In 1971, he left the priesthood following a crisis of faith, but he returned to the priesthood before his death in 1996 at the age of 85.